January 2010 Hamper News
Happy New Year to all our visitors!

Thank you to all our customers who have supported us during our first year. Without you we wouldn't be here and we are now looking forward to growing our little nut of a business into a beautiful oak one day.
This Christmas was far busier than Rebecca & I had anticipated- We felt like we lived in Santas grotto for a few weeks and would have loved a few more "Elves" to help us pack our hampers. At times we ran out of some of our great little hampers and gifts. Apologies to those of you who had to wait for your hamper delivery and thank you so much for your kind patience. We were amazed at the number of you who commented on our high standard of customer care-something we keep high on our list of priorities.

Our Little Red Wagon hampers were an amazing hit & sold out within 4 days, leaving us trawling Europe & the US trying to get new stock on these cute little Kris Flyer Radio wagons in order to fulfill our back orders. Sadly it looks like Radio Flyers have discontinued the "901" but we will be stocking it's big brother the "no.5" for larger hampers shortly.

Many of you have suggested personalised hampers so we've just launched our first personalised gift box with our vintage inspired Tuck Boxes. The Children love to see their names on the gift box and use the boxes for storing all sorts of wonderful trinkets and toys once they have demolished the hamper contents. One little girl has turned her gift box into a bed for her woolly monkey and an 8 year old boy "Max" keeps his fossil/ rock collection in his. We love hearing about your hamper boxes-let us know what you've done with yours and send us a picture and we'll put up your ideas on a forthcoming newspage.

The best news for us is receiving your emails telling us how thrilled you & your little ones have been with their gifts & this spurs us on to create more imaginative hampers.

We are planning several New Baby Hampers for January and will also introduce some gorgeous new children's gifts over the next two months.



October Hamper News!



Sophie Conran can't live without The Great Little Hamper Company!

Look out for Sophie Conran's column in Junior Magazine this month.
Sophie has declared that she "can't live without" The Great Little Hamper Company after receiving one of our gorgeous Organic Heart Cookie Hampers. Well Thank You Sophie...and we can't live without Junior Magazine. www.juniormagazine.co.uk


    

Fair Trade

Christmas Stocking

We have just launched the first of our gorgeous Christmas Stockings. They are fair trade cotton and jam packed with our favourite organic hand made chocolate lollipops, organic fudge and various delicious candies from the Natural Candy Shop. We know from experience that the delicious contents won't be around for long, but the beautiful Christmas stocking will be treasured for many Christmas's to come. Available in blue star or pink floral @£20. Please order early as we have limited stock.

Overseas customers!

We are thrilled to see that our hampers and gifts are now being discovered online all over the globe.
This month we've had hamper orders from Jersey, Singapore, Australia, USA and South Africa. Welcome All to The Great Little Hamper Company!

We are always happy to help. If you are finding it difficult to place your hamper order just email us first with your request and include your international telephone number so we can contact you and take your order by phone. We pride ourselves on our customer care & are always delighted to help.
penny@thegreatlittlehampercompany.co.uk

Happy Shopping!
Love Penny & Rebecca x

September News!

Well sadly Summer was a wash out but we Brits don't let it dampen our spirits...er not much anyway!

Here's something to bring a little sunshine into your life.

We are delighted to be the first UK Hamper Company to stock these genuine, miniature Radio Flyer Little Red Wagons. Just like the originals they have an articulated front and moving wheels. We have several new hamper designs, in two sizes, launching throughout September.  The larger hampers will be The Wild West Wagon, The Book Cart and "Meals on Wheels" Wagon for toddlers.

The first two in stock are our gorgeous mini Baby Wagons @£28 and delicious Candy Wagons @£24 (See below) both available as boys and girls gifts. I've already set aside half a dozen for Christmas gifts...I know, it's only September, but I've got a feeling these Radio Flyers are going to fly...



August News!

This month we've been asked to supply some of our lovely hampers to two publications for inclusion in their summer issues:
Junior Magazine & Easy Living Magazine - so look out for our Heart Cookie Hamper and Pirate fancy dress outfit in these two magazines.

Christmas hamper ideas are still taking up much of our time. We've sourced some exciting products and will be photographing them soon to give you a sneak preview of our new hamper range in September...


July News!

New This Month!

Peter Rabbit Organic Baby Food Gift Box



For the tiniest little people in your life we have just launched the Peter Rabbit Organic Baby Food Gift Box. A lovely Peter Rabbit design gift tin packed with Organic goodies. It makes a unique gift for new parents, baby's first birthday present or Christmas hamper. Suitable for babies after weaning.
Great value at £20. Why not take a look!



Following the runaway success of our best selling Naughty but Nice Lunch Boxes, we can now offer you a wider choice of designs.
Choose from our original Emma Bridgewater Men at Work "Trucks" or Dancing Mice designs or the new Emma Bridgewater Dinosaur Lunch box or cute Peter Rabbit Lunch box. Just choose from the drop down menus.


Get Your Daily Candy!

Thank You to Daily Candy for featuring us on their Ab Fab website! It brought lots of lovely new visitors to the site. If you are new to us then "Welcome!"
Daily Candy dishes up sweet & unique ideas for families and children. Places to visit, shop, eat, play & relax. Lovely website & well worth a look.
www.dailycandy.com


The "C" Word"


Dare we mention the "C" word????
Christmas of course! While many of us are planning what to do for the summer, some of us are scratching our heads to come up with unique new Christmas hampers for little people! We are currently testing lots of organic, fair trade & eco-friendly toys & treats before launching our new ranges in October. Oh, It's a hard life-I hear you shout! You try smothering yourself in gentle baby products and sampling hand made chocolates all day...Ok! Your right. Nice Job!


We are also "toy"ing with the idea of adult gifts & hampers as so many of you have asked! We'll keep you posted.
By the way-If you've got any amazing products or great ideas-Why not drop us a line? Xmas hamper Ideas


Love from Penny & Rebecca x